Gast, Gerald
Pairolero, Jenna
2013-07-24T23:54:26Z
2013-07-24T23:54:26Z
2013
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13031
34 pages
Barcelona is one of the major metropolitan centres in Europe. It is located in the Northern region of Spain known as the autonomous community of Catalonia. The city of Barcelona
is situated adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea between the Llobregat and Besos rivers. Its
location exemplifies its economic dominance and global acknowledgement. Barcelona’s
population is one of the highest in Spain at 1.6 million, just behind Madrid with a population
at 3.2 million. It is one of the densest cities in Europe with an average density of 15,926
inhabitants per square kilometer. Barcelona’s high density and growing population demands
economic and political dominance in Spain.
Because of its density and global recognition, Barcelona has presented many opportunities
for metropolitan urban design projects. In Barcelona’s recent history, post Franco, the city has
established numerous urban design efforts to generate city identity and acknowledgement.
Beginning with the Olympic games in 1992, Barcelona was able to establish itself at the
global scale and the 2004 Forum of Cultures enhanced that recognition. Today, Barcelona
continues to look towards the future to create dynamic urban centres, such as the 22@ BCN
district and the Diagonal Mar development. Throughout this paper, I will discuss Barcelona’s
urban transformations in the past forty years and how they positively and negatively altered
the city’s urban dynamic.
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon terminal project, Dept. of Architecture;Master of Architecture, 2013
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Urban design
City planning--Spain--Barcelona
Barcelona, The New Districts: 1992 Olympics, 2004 Forum of Cultures, & 22@ BCN
Terminal Project

Gast, Gerald
Prassas, Alina Grace
2013-07-25T21:21:06Z
2013-07-25T21:21:06Z
2013
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13033
25 pages
Bogotá is a complex city, one that has evolved for hundreds of years, and has always been framed by the ebb and flow of large amounts of people. In this case study, I hope to evaluate modern urban design plans through the context of social equality. Enrique Peñalosa, a former mayor of Bogotá, frames the problem third world countries have eloquently “If we in the Third World measure our success or failure as a society in terms of income, we would have to classify ourselves as losers until the end of time,” declares Peñalosa. “So with our limited resources, we have to invent other ways to measure success. This might mean that all kids have access to sports facilities, libraries, parks, schools, nurseries.” For decades Colombia has been plagued by violence brought on by the drug trade and its gangs. Bogotá was perhaps the first city in Bogotá to try and curb the violence through urban upgrades, and was very influential throughout the entire country. Through examination of the history of Bogotá, its land use patterns, transit approaches, affordable housing projects, public parks, and libraries, a thorough picture of the city’s urban design will be painted.
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon terminal project, Dept. of Architecture;Master of Architecture, 2013
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Land use -- Colombia -- Bogotá
Affordable housing
Public spaces -- Columbia -- Bogotá
Urban design
Transportation
Bogotá: An analysis of urban design, transportation, and accessibility in a developing, sustainable city
Terminal Project

Suzanne Zuniga
Steen, Emily
2011-05-26T21:59:26Z
2011-05-26T21:59:26Z
2011
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11191
11 pages
The urban adaptive reuse project I’ll be examining is the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center. The building was originally constructed in 1895 by J. McCraken Company as a warehouse and transfer station. In 1998, Ecotrust (a local rain forest conservation group) purchased the building and started renovations. The project was completed in 2001 and awarded the first LEED gold historic building in the nation. The building takes up an entire city block in the heart of Portland’s emerging River District.
The second project I’ll be looking at is the Omega Center for Sustainable Living. Contrasting to the urban adaptive reuse, this project was a new construction in rural Rhinebeck, NY. The Omega Institute is the nation’s largest holistic learning center. In 2006, they set out to develop a highly sustainable waste-water filtration facility for their 195-acre campus. The building is not only awarded LEED platinum, but it was also the first building in the U.S. to meet the requirements of the Living Building Challenge.
I’ve used the seven performance areas of the Living Building Challenge (Site, Water, Energy, Health, Materials, Equity (Economics) and Beauty) as a starting point to analyze the impacts of each building. I’ve also added an Education/Social piece to my analysis.
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University of Oregon, Dept. of Architecture, Portland Program
Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction
LEED Green Building Rating System
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System
Sustainable architecture
Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center (Portland, Or.)
Do we rebuild or use anew? A discussion and comparison of adaptive-reuse vs. new construction through case-studies
Other

Gast, Gerald
Shanks, Nicholas
2013-07-25T22:22:52Z
2013-07-25T22:22:52Z
2013
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13034
35 pages
Modern day Vancouver is perhaps one of the finest cities of today not only for its beautiful natural
setting but because of its progressive planning efforts that have taken place over the past 50 years. The
following research paper will discuss the history of the city, the evolution of its planning efforts, and
conclude with some of its exemplary waterfront development projects.
en_US
University of Oregon
University of Oregon terminal project, Dept. of Architecture;Master of Architecture, 2013
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City planning --Vancouver (B.C.)
Open spaces
Public spaces
"A Setting in Search of a City": A Research Project
Terminal Project
Urban design

Suzanne Zuniga
Ruzomberka, Sara
2011-05-26T21:48:18Z
2011-05-26T21:48:18Z
2011
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11189
8 pages
The Presidio National Park in
San Francisco and Battery Park in New York City are both sustainable infill projects that have been developed in recent years, each with successes and failures. These projects attempt to create
communities within a city and work with the different ecotones; habitat, community, and tourism to
create precedent communities that can translate into future development. The goal for each of these
projects is the same, and both in line with that of the Ahwahnee Principles and other sustainable
infill ideas, but the outcomes are strikingly different.
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University of Oregon, Dept. of Architecture, Portland Program
Infill housing
Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.)
Battery Park (New York, N.Y.)
Sustainable Infi ll Projects- Presidio, San Francisco and Battery Park, NYC
Other

Gast, Gerald
Maternoski, John M.
2013-07-24T23:35:25Z
2013-07-24T23:35:25Z
2013
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13030
50 pages
Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital city of 500,000 enjoys a rich history of great success for its architecture, design, and urban planning. The city’s “five finger plan,” developed in 1947 by Steen Eiler Rasmussen is one of the most widely-recognized urban plans in the world. Addressing a set of 10 challenges facing Copenhagen in the mid-1940s, the plan allowed for controlled suburban growth of the city, while ensuring space was left open for recreational and agricultural activities. 60+ years later, the plan has lost its merits as a feasible urban plan. Growth and suburban sprawl have pushed the length of the fingers well beyond their limits as reasonable growth guidelines, and the city is facing an entirely new set of challenges led by the rise of technology and the advent of global climate change.
In 2010, Copenhagen’s own innovative architecture and urban design firm BIG presented a sweeping plan to not only create guidelines for Copenhagen’s future development, but used the plan to address a set of 10 entirely new challenges. The plan presents interesting, unique, and sustainable ideas for addressing the needs of and connecting not only the city of Copenhagen, but the entire region surrounding the Øresund Strait, including Denmark and Sweden. These strategies offer a glimpse into ground-breaking urban design in the 21st century.
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon terminal project, Dept. of Architecture;Master of Architecture, 2013
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Redevelopment, Urban
Land use-- planning
Urban Growth in Copenhagen: Addressing Challenges Through Regional Urban Design
Terminal Project